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Ryan Newman, of South Bend, Indiana, is a race car driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He drives the #39 United States Army/Tornados/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala for Stewart Haas Racing. He was Rookie of the Year for USAC Silver Crown in 1996 and for Winston Cup in 2002. He won the USAC Weld Racing Silver Crown Series in 1999, the Sprint All-Star Race XVII and Daytona 500 in 2008. In 2003 he was Driver of the Year.

CONCORD, N.C. -- Kevin Harvick held off Jeff Gordon to win the Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday night and join Joey Logano in the next round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Gordon finished...

The uproar following the Federated Auto Parts 400 a year ago at Richmond International Raceway doesn't equate to the Black Sox scandal, but it is one of the biggest black marks credibility-wise for its sport.
And while Martin Truex Jr. is not to NASCAR...

Part of the fun of the Sprint Cup Series regular season ending Saturday with the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway is that it gives us a chance to look ahead. During the next week, the Internet and Twittersphere will be filled...

RICHMOND – Brad Keselowski nailed down the No. 1 seed in the Chase for the Sprint Cup with a dominant victory in the Federated Auto Parts 400 on Saturday at Richmond International Raceway. Keselowski led 383 of 400 laps to finish nearly a second ahead...

RICHMOND — The Sprint Cup Series late-summer stop at Richmond International Raceway is a lot like the annual HBO series that follows an NFL team through preseason camp. The narratives are bottom heavy, with football final roster cuts covered at length and...

The hype surrounding the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series late-summer stop at Richmond International Raceway is usually predictable. Being the 26th race on the Cup tour, its the field-finalizer for the 10-race Chase, and there is always plenty of talk about who...

Can anything top last year's chaos following the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway? Probably not — at RIR or anywhere else.
A late Clint Bowyer spin that brought out a caution flag cost Ryan Newman what appeared to be a sure...

Richmond International Raceway takes its rather prominent place in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series spotlight on Saturday with the Federated Auto Parts 400.
It's billed as "One Last Race To Make the Chase," because, at the end of 300 laps and 400...

RICHMOND — Two lessons were learned from Saturday's Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday about the affect of teammates in setting the 12-driver field for the Chase for the championship: One unsettling, mudding the regular-season...

Joe Gibbs remains the only coach to win Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks. Almost as remarkable, none of the three — Joe Theismann, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien — has a Canton zip code.
More than two decades removed from his final Super...

The Sprint Cup Series stop at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday for the Toyota Owners 400 marks the end of the first quarter for the 36-race season in NASCAR's premier series.
So it's early, too early even to make an educated guess whether...

The feud between Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, which escalated following contact in the final laps of the Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington last week, isn't likely to cool down soon. It does not seem to be affecting the friendship between the teams'...

Jimmie Johnson leads the Sprint Cup points race. He's completed a personal-best 99.6 percent of laps this season, and his average finish of 9.8 is the second-highest of his incomparable career.
So why, entering Saturday's Pistachios-Are-Best-In-Ice-Cream...

The Sprint Cup Series Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 on Saturday came down to what most races in NASCAR's premier series come down to at Richmond International Raceway these days: a battle between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.
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A lot happened in the wreck-filled NASCAR Sprint Cup Wonderful Pistachios 400 at Richmond International Raceway, but nothing changed. The 12 drivers positioned to make the Chase before Saturday's race will make up the field in Cup's 10-race playoff, which...

The road to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Chase, major-league stock-car racing's 10-race playoff, ends as always at Richmond International Raceway. Even before the green flag drops on the Federated Auto Parts 400 on Saturday night, 10 of the 12 Chase spots...

It's a certainty there will be more Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans on hand at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday for the Sprint Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 than any of the "5 Drivers to Watch" listed below. And it's entirely possible...

RICHMOND – Kyle Busch’s team rolled the dice in the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway and lost. A decision not to pit for fresh tires on a lap 276 caution, gambling that the rain that brought out the yellow flag might end the...